Ring game



E. SAS

RING GAME March 19, 1929.

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ELMER SAS, OF NEW "YORK,'N. Y.

RING GAME.

"Application filed July 20, 1926.

This invention relates to game devices, its object being to provide adevice of the character described which by reason of its con structionand a combination of colors employed makes high scoring difficult toachieve,

Features of the invention reside in a stationary base member having acentral vertical pin, pointed at the top to provideaneedle bearing for arevoluble table suspended ona tube encirclin the pin and having asocketat its top to receive the needle bearing.

On the table are fixed a plurality of cone shaped ring-posts, over whichrings may be thrown, they are equidistantly positioned and beardifferent colors, while the table also is colored correspondingly withone of the ring posts.

For instance if the table is painted or otherwise colored green, one ofthe cone ring posts would also be colored green, and this post by reasonof its similar color to the table would be difficult to score even whilethe table is stationary, and much more so if the table is rocking oroscillating around its axis, or even made to revolvedurin the ringingoperation, or the playing of the game. Should a player ring thls post,he would receive ahigher count than for ringing any other posts, as hereshown, the green post is marked 100.

The next most difficult to follow when the table is in motion or toscore when the table is stationary, is the blue post, and therefore thatis marked 7 5.

The next more prominent post when the table stands or when it spins, isthe red, and that is marked 50.

The yellow post being most prominent against the present background .ofgreen, and rather well defined in its circular travel and easiest tocast a ring over, is marked 25. The central bearing tube, extending farabove the cone ring posts and being rather small in diameter, alsoconstitutes a ring post, and when a ring is cast over this, the playeris credited with 5 to hls score, this tube being the easiest to score.

Briefly expressed, the invention comprises a rotatable, centrallysuspended table, having numbered posts combined with a combination ofcolors, whereby some posts will be more difficult to see than otherswhen casting the rings, especially so when the table is turning at thesame time.

Serial No. 123,755.

Posts of different sizes'may be employed on a tableand othercombinations ofelements and colors may also be used.

In order that the invention may be clearly understood and readilycarried into effect, the same will now be described more fully withreference to the accompanying drawings illustrating a preferredembodiment thereof, and in which Fig. 1 is a partly sectional elevationof the device showing a ring lying over the yellow cone post, thesectionbeing about on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device.

Fig. 3 is a detail of a rubber, ring which may be employed in playingthe game.

Referring to the drawings, a base 10'pr'eferably of sheet metal isformed with a circumferential rest flange ll'curled at the bottom topermit a round bearing to prevent scratching of polished floors orfurniture on which the device may be placed.

The base is provided with a central opening through which a bearing pin12 projects and is secured inplace by washers 13, and clamp nuts 14;.The pin is pointed. at the top to provide a needle bearing 15, for atube 16, havinga conical socket 17, resting'on said bearing to obviatefriction.

The tube 16 is welded or'otherwisesecured at the bottom, to ahorizontally arrangedv rotary table 18, on which. a plurality of coneshaped ring posts 19 are secured, preferably by integral tongues 20,passing through slots 21, in the table, and clinched thereunder.

In carrying out the invention, I employ a combination of colors torender some of the ring posts relatively more difficult to follow whenplaying the game, so that the posts bearing colors corresponding to ornearest to the color of the table will be hardest to cast a ring over,and they can not be clearly seen. In one combination, I may paint orotherwise color the table green as shown at 22, one of the cone ringposts 19 will also bear the same color, as shown at 23. I may coloranother ring post blue, as shown at 24:. Another I may color red, asshown at 25, and another yellow, as shown at 26.

The cast-ing rings 27 may be made of rope, as shown, or any othersuitable material, such as soft or semisoft rubber, one being shown inFig. 3, and they mayalso be of different colors, corresponding to thoseof the cones, in which case an extra bonus may be ofl'ered to suchplayers who cast rings on posts showing identical colors.

In playing the game, one of the players takes one, two, or more ringsand tries to cast them over the different posts from a suitable andusually quite considerable distance. The table will, upon being hit byany ring be given a rapid rotation. By reason of the distance of theposts from the center of the rotation which causes their weights to addto the momentum of the device and due to the fact that the rotatabletable is suspended on a needle point which has the same effect andfacilitates the movements of the table, the table is easily set intomotion and keeps therein for a considerable length of time. After theplayer casts all his rings the score or count is inadeand recorded. Thenanother player makes the casts and his score is recorded, and so on. Fora competitive game my device will preterably be used in an originallystationary position, when the suspended position of the rotatable tableand the comparatively large arm its mass is working on about itssuspension will make the table very sensitive and rock it even whenslightly hit by a ring and will make the scoring of a post ratherdifficult, while the comparative skill of the player can be judged,since each starts with a stationary device.

My device may also be of large proportions for outdoor use andcorrespondingly large rings employed. Differently colored pockets orcups may also be attached to the rotary table instead of the ring posts,and preferably inelastic soft balls, bean bags, or disks, etc., used asthe casting element.

The invention is not limited to any particular physical embodiment, buton the contrary is susceptible of being expressed in differentstructures and forms, and I reserve the right to all variations andmodifications as properly fall within the scope of myinvention, and theterms of the appended claims.

What I claim as new, is

1. In a game device of the class specified, a stationary base providedwith a central pin, a table suspended from the top of the pin androtatable over the base, cone shaped ring posts on said table, said pinbeing higher than said posts, in combination with rings to be cast oversaid posts.

2. A game device comprising a base, a centrally arranged pin fixedthereto and pointed at the top to provide a needle bearing, a tubehaving a head resting on said bearing, a rotary table carried by thetube, numbered ring posts on said table, said pin being higher than saidring posts, said table and posts bearing a combination of colors wherebysome of the posts are partially obscured, in combination with castingdevices to play the game.

8. A game device comprising a base having a central opening, avertically extending pin secured therein, said pin being pointed toprovide a needle bearing, a tube 011 said pin and having a head providedwith a recess to rest on said bearing, a table fast to the botton'i ofsaid tube, ring posts on said table, said pin being higher than saidring posts, said table and posts bearing a combination of colors wherebysome of the posts cannot be seen as clearly as others, in combinationwith rings to play the game.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York,this 17th day of July, A. D. 1926.

ELMER SAS.

